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G. H. Hardy

A mathematician,
like a painter or a
poet, is a maker of
patterns. If his
patterns are more
permanent than
theirs, it is
because they are
made with ideas. . .
. The
mathematician's
patterns, like the
painter's or the
poet's, must be
beautiful; the
ideas, like the
colors or the words,
must fit together in
a harmonious way.
Beauty is the first
test; there is no
permanent place in
the world for ugly
mathematics.

G. H. Hardy

Georg Cantor

I place myself in a
certain opposition
to widespread views
on the nature of the
mathematical
infinite.